Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] rise " in BNC.

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1 During the 1930s , for example , family allowances were seen by increasing numbers of people as a method of combating the falling birth rate which had given rise to widespread fear of an ever declining population .
2 While the majority of Japanese remained ignorant of Western social values and customs , and of the background which had given rise to them , the new Meiji government was already moving fast to demolish the formal apparatus of Tokugawa society .
3 First , the mother lacked parenting skills which had given rise to emotional harm caused to the children .
4 Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services .
5 These measures , collectively known as the Tory Reaction , meant that by 1685 the opposition alliance which had given rise to the first Whig party had largely crumbled .
6 They will come to realize that the factor which had given rise to their positive , constant prediction errors under adaptive expectations was the excess demand component , .
7 Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else .
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